San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
Baylor shocks No. 14 Iowa St.; Texas St. falls to EMU
WACO — Gerry Bohanon threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, and Baylor stopped a twopoint try with 24 seconds left to beat No. 14 Iowa State 31-29 on Saturday.
Breece Hall ran for 180 yards and two touchdowns on 24 carries for Iowa State (2-2, 0-1 Big 12) and caught five passes for 51 yards, including a 16yard score in the final minute that was followed by a failed two-point try.
The Bears recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock for their first win over a ranked opponent since they beat North Carolina in the 2015 Russell Athletic Bowl.
The Bears (4-0, 2-0) scored touchdowns on their first three possessions and never trailed again. Bohannon ran for an 8-yard touchdown, then found Tyquan Thornton along the left sideline for a 21-yard TD and Ben Sims behind the Iowa
State secondary for a 33yard score to give Baylor a 21-7 lead seven seconds into the second quarter.
Bohannon finished 14 for 19 for 164 yards and rushed for 36 yards.
Treston Ebner returned a kickoff 98 yards for Baylor’s only touchdown of the second half with 6:59 left in the third quarter.
Brock Purdy was 22 for 33 for 263 yards and a touchdown. He was also intercepted once, stopping a drive at the Baylor 22 with 11:55 left in the game.
Baylor was outgained by Iowa State 469-284.
EASTERN MICHIGAN 59, TEXAS ST. 21
Eastern Michigan racked up 504 yards of offense and closed the game with 31 unanswered points to put away the Bobcats at Rynearson Stadium in Ypsilanti, Mich.
Texas State quarterback Brady McBride completed 16 of 25 passes for 187 yards and three touchdowns, helping the Bobcats (1-3) trim a 28-7 deficit to 28-21 early in the third quarter.
But the Eagles (3-1) were in control the rest of the way, tacking on 10 points before the end of the quarter and then scoring three touchdowns in the fourth.
Eastern Michigan quarterback Ben Bryant finished 20-of-33 passing for 228 yards with three touchdowns, and the Eagles ran for 247 yards.
Javen Banks had four catches for 38 yards and two touchdowns for the Bobcats, while Trevis Graham added four grabs
for 69 yards and a score. Brock Sturges ran for 68 yards, while Calvin Hill picked up 58 yards on the ground.
Texas State will have an open week before beginning the Sun Belt Conference season with a home game against South Alabama on Oct. 9.
Greg Luca
SMU 42, TCU 34
Tanner Mordecai added to his nation-leading total in touchdown passes with four more and the Mustangs overcame his three interceptions in a victory over the Horned Frogs at Fort Worth in the 100th meeting of the Dallas-Fort Worth rivals.
“It’s a battle for credibility for us,“Dykes said. “It always is. Nobody wants to pay attention to us and say we’re any good. And our guys pick up on that. When they have a chance to prove themselves on a big stage, they want to do the best they can to do it.”
Ulysses Bentley IV ran for 153 yards and a touchdown and Danny Gray had 130 yards receiving, including a 68-yard catchand-run for a score during a torrid start for both teams. Tre Siggers added 110 yards rushing as the Mustangs finished with
350 yards on the ground.
After last year’s Iron Skillet game was called off because of COVID-19 issues in TCU’s program, the Mustangs earned consecutive victories over the Horned Frogs for the first time since 1992-93.
“I thought SMU wanted it more,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “I told them, when somebody hates you, you have to change your frame of mind. They hate us. It’s simple.”
Mordecai was 17 of 28 for 245 yards and is up to 20 TD passes for the season. SMU (4-0), of the American Athletic Conference, limited TCU to a pair of field goals after interceptions that put the Horned Frogs (2-1) inside the Mustangs’ 25-yard line twice.
The third pick by Mordecai was in the TCU end zone on a failed fourthdown try from the 3 on the final play of the first half, when Dykes went for the TD instead of a short field goal in a 21-21 game.
The Mustangs got the ball back in the exact same spot at the other end of the field on the first play of the second half when Turner Coxe forced a fumble on a sack of Max Duggan and DeVere Levelston recovered. Bentley scored the tiebreaking TD from the 1 two plays later.
“It was a hard decision,” Dykes said. “I thought about kicking it. I felt like if we could convert that, that would really spring us, and we didn’t. The great thing about our players is nobody blinked. We went back to the locker room and everybody was like, ‘So?’”
Duggan was 16 of 28 for 276 yards and three touchdowns, and Zach Evans had 113 yards rushing to surpass the century mark for the fourth time in five games.
But it wasn’t enough to extend a five-game TCU winning streak dating to last season.
The teams scored two touchdowns apiece within the first eight minutes, and Evans put the Horned Frogs up 21-14 with a career-long catch of 46 yards on a screen for a TD.
Reggie Roberson was wide open for a 29-yard scoring catch less than three minutes later.